New PaintballAccess.com stats

All the technology exist to make this digital, digital that could be ported to pbn and sellable to fields. Why not go back to pumps and shoot 2 inch balls to make it easier? Only in paintball is an excellent idea executed backwards.
Achievements. Marker/accuracy stats. Owning the new way to play.
That would be exciting.

How about adding an element where people "witness" to specific kills? Let there be a database of confirmed and unconfirmed kills which people could access(mobile website?) and confirm? Then if the kill has 5 witnesses it becomes verified and counted in stats.

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Originally Posted by DYB

HI,

We are currently running about an 85% accuracy rate on G's. We are adding two more spotters in Phoenix to hopefully improve it to 90%+.

The data and its presentation will evolve as we get better on collection and analysis. Ultimately we want the stats to be viewable by the public after each point (through webcast and PBA website) and are working towards that as well as having the team performance data available for coaches at the end of each day.

The stat collection is a complex process and expensive. We are committed in doing this to better organize our sport, give players the tools to improve their performance and archiving the information for paintball history. This is the beginning of the historical archive of our sport and will be a legacy product. 50 years from now people will be able to reflex back on the data that we are collecting today.

Cade Coleman is the head of the stat program and will continue to answer questions along the road.

Thanks for the support of PBA

DYB

I think DYB addressed the confirmed kills well enough, and if it's someone's job to specifically track those kills that's not bad I can imagine it being tough in some circumstances to count them accurately.

So will there be a metric for how many of your own team mates you eliminated?? .... well :semimaybedodgy:

We are currently running about an 85% accuracy rate on G's. We are adding two more spotters in Phoenix to hopefully improve it to 90%+.

The data and its presentation will evolve as we get better on collection and analysis. Ultimately we want the stats to be viewable by the public after each point (through webcast and PBA website) and are working towards that as well as having the team performance data available for coaches at the end of each day.

The stat collection is a complex process and expensive. We are committed in doing this to better organize our sport, give players the tools to improve their performance and archiving the information for paintball history. This is the beginning of the historical archive of our sport and will be a legacy product. 50 years from now people will be able to reflex back on the data that we are collecting today.

Cade Coleman is the head of the stat program and will continue to answer questions along the road.

Thanks for the support of PBA

DYB

I suggest asking players on the ranking system to see if they'd like to submit a short bio/about section for themselves (make it a bit more encompassing)

Also, two things you should look into (one for the sport, one for profit)

For the sport: track injuries per professional games. This would be a great metric to show the world how safe paintball really is (only seen on statistic before, and paintball is safer than bowling)

For profit: fantasy paintball. People have said it, they would play it. Whether you make it free and have ads or make people pay a few $$ for an account/etc, it will make money as the sport gets bigger. Keep this in the back of your mind for a next product!

Finally, just want to say I will be following this heavily. This is a great think to see for the sport. 90% accuracy is killer!

this is an idea i have wanted to see happen for a longtime, this is awesome. glad to see someone stepping up and taking their lumps figuring out all the kinks. this gives such a great perspective into the progame and why certain players are so effective. once you guys get this down to a science i would love to see a fantasy paintball game, id pay to play fantasy paintball.

Yes the fantasy paintball project is in the works and has been in the plan. The module is going to be a custom built product and will take some time and extensive funding to complete. We will accomplish this goal.

We hope to be beta testing it by the Fall and being able to offer it for 2013. We obviously have to work on refining the collection and structure before we initiate the fantasy league and that's been our direction so far.

We are just barely getting going with what we hope to offer the public over the next 12-24 months.

Thats great to see some steping up to create this, I see all my friends at school have fantasy basketball and so now i can talk to my Paintball buddys and have that. I can do beta testing if you want. I have done some games in the past. let me know if you need anything.
-Aaron